Who is Amelia Earhart?

Amelia Mary Earhart was born July 24, 1897, in Atchison. “During World War I Earhart worked as a nurse’s aide with the Red Cross and after the war as a social worker in Boston. When her parents relocated to California, she moved to Long Beach and there in 1921 began flying lessons with Neta Snook.” Her house is now a museum. It became a museum Feb 1, 2002.

Amelia saw her first plane at a state fair when she was 10 years old.

During World War I, Amelia became a nurse’s aid in Toronto, Canada, to help wounded soldiers. On December 28, 1920, Frank Hawks gave Amelia her first ride in an airplane. Amelia took her first flying lesson on January 3, 1921. Amelia’s first plane was a bright yellow “Kinner Airster” that she named, "The Canary".

“In 1928, Amelia Earhart received a phone call that would change her life. She was invited to become the first woman passenger to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a plane.” On October 22, 1922,she set the women's altitude record of 14,000 feet. She was the first woman to fly across the United states by herself.

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to ever attempt to go across the pacific. She stopped at a little island to refill the plain with gas. When she was on the last little stretch of the 19 hour trip, the people she was talking to could not get anything back from her. The U.S. “Navy and Coast Guard launched the largest and most expensive air and sea search in American history.” About and hour or two later is when they started to search. “Earhart was declared legally dead on January 5, 1939.”

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